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Tim Dunn (businessman)
Timothy Marvin Dunn (born December 18, 1955) is an American businessman. He is the chief executive officer of CrownQuest Operating, an oil and gas business he co-founded in 1996. Dunn is influential in Texas politics, and is a major financial backer of various politically conservative causes and organizations. Early life and education Dunn grew up in Big Spring, Texas, where he graduated from Big Spring High School in 1974. He was an Eagle Scout in high school and also played guitar in a rock band. He is the youngest of four boys. Dunn attended Texas Tech University where he earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1978. Career Dunn began his career as an engineer at Exxon Production Research Company, where he worked from 1978 to 1980. He went on to work in banking at First City Bancorporation where he stayed until 1987. During his time with First City, he was senior vice president and manager of oil and gas lending. Dunn then served as an executive at Parker & Parsley Petrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littlefield, Texas
Littlefield is a city in and the county seat of Lamb County, Texas, United States. Its population was 6,372 at the 2010 census. It is located in a significant cotton-growing region, northwest of Lubbock on the Llano Estacado just south of the Texas Panhandle. Littlefield had a large denim-manufacturing plant operated by American Cotton Growers. History Littlefield is named for George Washington Littlefield. In July 1901, Littlefield purchased the southern, or Yellow Houses, division of the XIT Ranch, forming the Yellow House Ranch. At that time, the ranch covered in Lamb, Hockley, Bailey, and Cochran Counties. In 1912, when surveys showed that a new rail line from Coleman, Texas, to Texico, New Mexico, would pass through his property, Littlefield formed the Littlefield Lands Company to sell the northeastern corner of the Yellow House Ranch, a total of , to settlers and to establish the town of Littlefield in Lamb County. Littlefield became a stop on the Panhandle and Sant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Texas State Senate Election
The 2020 Texas Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state senators in 16 of the 31 state senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Texas State Senate. Those elected in 2020 will only be elected for two years, however, as part of the 2-4-4 term system. A statewide map of Texas's state Senate districts can be obtained from the Texas Legislative Council. and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Census. Following the 2016 state senate elections, Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate with 19 members. To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats would have needed to net four Senate seats. The Democratic Party gained one seat (District 19), leaving the Republicans with an 18 to 13 majority in the chamber. This election marks the first time since 1994 that the Democrats fielded candidates in more State Senate districts than the Republicans. Retirem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Big Spring, Texas
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dunn (musician)
David Timothy Dunn (born May 25, 1984) is an American musician. A singer-songwriter, he appeared on The Voice (U.S. season 2), season two of NBC's ''The Voice (U.S. TV series), The Voice''. Dunn is a Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian artist. He is signed to BEC Recordings. Early life David Timothy Dunn was born on May 25, 1984, in Midland, Texas, to father Tim Dunn (businessman), Tim Dunn and mother Terri Lee Dunn (''née'', Spannaus) where he was raised, and he went on to study engineering at Texas Tech University. He graduated with honors. While in college, he got his start as an acoustic singer-songwriter. He recorded his first album during his senior year before leaving to go to Africa for a year-long humanitarian trip. Dunn appeared on the second season of NBC's ''The Voice (U.S. TV series), The Voice''. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Personal life Dunn married his girlfriend Leen on July 12, 2017. In December 2017, it was revealed they were expecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyamin Elon
Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon ( he, בנימין אלון, 10 November 1954 – 5 May 2017) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite, Elon lived in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, for over twenty years, and was married to author and journalist Emuna Elon. They had six children. His father, Menachem Elon, was the former Deputy Chief Justice of Israel. His brother, disgraced Rabbi Mordechai Elon, has been a prominent controversial figure in the Religious Zionist Movement. Biography Born in Jerusalem, Elon studied at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, and Kollel HaIdra in the Golan Heights, before being ordained as a rabbi in 1978. Together with Hanan Porat, he founded the Beit Orot Talmudic College, and Elon became its first dean. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1996 as a member of the right-wing Moledet Party, advocating "voluntary" transfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Allies Foundation
The Israel Allies Foundation (IAF, also known as the International Israel Allies Caucus Foundation) educates and empowers an international network of pro-Israel legislators. IAF works with politicians around the world to mobilize support for Israel based Jewish values. One of its main goals is keeping Jerusalem fully under Israeli sovereignty. Parliamentary groups affiliated with the IAF include the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus in the United States House of Representatives, the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus in the Israeli parliament, and similar groups in Uruguay, the Philippines, South Korea, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Australia, Finland, Italy, Canada, Costa Rica, and Malawi. As of 2021, IAF supported 50 pro-Israel parliamentary groups worldwide. IAF takes politicians and heads of pro-Israel organizations on paid-for tours of Israel. History In January 2004, the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) was founded by Israeli politician Yuri Stern of the Yisrael Beit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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